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Four Corners Regional Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Four Corners Regional Care Center's website

818 North 400 West,
Blanding UT 84511

(435) 678-2251

45.86% estimated occupancy ¹

Located in Blanding, Utah, Four Corners Regional Care Center is the lone nursing home we were able to find in this city. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. You can certainly do worse than this place. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection reports, which we will address in the next paragraph.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Government - County
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Medication Management
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A- for its inspection grade. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also awarded this nursing home a favorable score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this category, which is one of our more favorable grades. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 76.543205 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

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Nurse Quality

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. There are several factors within this area. Many of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Short-term Care Quality

The next area we looked at was short-term care. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Four Corners Regional Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 5.43% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 6.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had a fall which resulted in major injury. We use this statistic in calculating nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 0.63% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 9.26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 6.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 0% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 85.86% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 19.46% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 15.6% of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 0.51 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 15.6% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 13.14% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Four Corners Regional Care Center, 67.21% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

Blue Mountain HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.59 miles away802 South 200 West Blanding Utah 84511Voluntary non-profit - Private(435) 678-3993
San Juan HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 17.87 miles away380 West 100 North Monticello Utah 84535Government - Local(435) 587-2116